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Analyzing African Pottery: Archaeology Meets Math in Groundbreaking Collaboration

Archaeologist Scott MacEachern remembers with fondness the days when nobody used to know where he worked. For the last 30 years he has been a regular visitor to an area of west-central Africa known as ...
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West African pottery forming and firing

Includes discussion of pottery making of the Bwa, Mossi, Yoruba, Gwari, and Shai, among others, in West Africa. Covers preparation of clays, building pots, decorating and firing. Based on the author's ...
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West African tradition in the decoration of colonial Jamaican folk pottery

In the early colonial period, Jamaican slaves manufactured pottery that incorporated traditional West African technology with selected European innovations. Recent examination of Afro-Jamaican wares ...
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Ancient pots hold clues about how diverse diets helped herders thrive in southern Africa

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. The introduction of ...
Archaeology

Pottery Offers Clues to Prehistoric Honey Hunting in West Africa

BRISTOL, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Bristol, the chemical components of beeswax were detected on about one-third of more than 450 pieces of pottery made by central ...
The Conversation

Beeswax in Nok pots provides evidence of early West African honey use

Julie Dunne received funding from the DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the financial funding of this project (BR 1459/7 and NE 408/5) Considerable historical and ethnographic literature across ...
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North Texas museum debuts Lion King exhibit, bridging African art and Broadway

DALLAS — Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it's a great time to visit the African American Museum of Dallas for a special ...